Remcom’s Activities at IMS 2018

IMS brings together thousands of the world's top microwave and wireless experts. The exhibition consists of over 500 exhibiting companies that represent the state-of-the-art when it comes to materials, devices, components, and subsystems, as well as design and simulation software and test/measurement equipment. Whatever you are looking to acquire, you will find the industry leaders ready and willing to answer your purchasing and technical questions.

MicroApps Presentations

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Time Domain Electromagnetic/Circuit Co-Simulation

Using a new electromagnetic/circuit co-simulation capability based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, the process of importing broadband circuit models into an electromagnetic simulation project, optimizing the overall design, and calculating important quantities such as S-parameters, radiation patterns, and system efficiency will be demonstrated.

The ability to import complex circuits into Remcom's full wave electromagnetic simulation product, XFdtd, will allow scientists and engineers to incorporate accurate broadband models of real world circuit components into their electromagnetic designs. Using these circuit models increases the accuracy of dissipated power and system efficiency calculations. The need to iterate between multiple electromagnetic and circuit software tools during a project is also reduced, thus saving companies time and money.

Simulating Throughput as a Device Design Metric

Modern antennas utilize MIMO technology in order to meet consumer demands for high data rates. As such, throughput is a required design metric when evaluating one antenna design versus another and simulating device performance in a realistic scenario leads to shorter design cycles.

Traditional antenna design metrics for SISO and diversity antennas include S-Parameters, gain, mean effective gain, and efficiency. These metrics primarily measure stand-alone antenna performance and don't fully provide the needed insight for current applications. In order to achieve high data rates, design engineers need to combine their antenna design with a channel model and compute throughput. Throughput is a more meaningful metric because it accounts for the environment's multi-path behavior where the antenna is going to operate. This presentation demonstrates the latest capabilities in throughput simulation.